Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of Yale and Harvard withdrawing from the league and playing 10 games - five at Yale and five at Harvard - is thought a good scheme in New Haven, and one that would create an extraordinary interest in the sport and be of great financial advantage. The president of the Yale team thought favorably of it, and one prominent athlete is of the opinion that if Harvard was similarly inclined, Yale would almost unanimously vote to join her. - Boston Herald...
Certain base-ball worthies at Harvard have met with a rebuff. When these fierce old ladies in boys' clothing invited Yale to join them in their little scheme for monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present...
Columbia would probably agree to whatever Harvard should propose in this line, and as Yale has always been the most prominent competitor in all athletics, she should not be shut out of the freshman races without very good reasons. If this scheme is found practicable, there is no reason why Ninety should not create a precedent of having Yale in the freshman races, as they have little reason to be afraid of being beaten on an even course...
...Yale and Harvard meet together in New York, according to agreement, to confer regarding the results of the mass meetings held at the respective colleges. Now, the question for us to decide is this: Are we to be cajoled, bullied or otherwise persuaded by Yale to give up our scheme of forming a new league, thereby intimating our intention of sticking to the old league? The opinion of a great many representative men of the various classes whom I have consulted, seems to be that we should not do so. If Yale persists in standing by the old league, then...
...mass meeting was called to decide whether or no the committee's adverse report should be accepted. It was accepted almost unanimously. All the Yale graduates who were consulted on the subject - among them Wyllys Terry, Walter Camp, George Adee, Walter Badger, and Sam Bremner - were opposed to the scheme; and their opposition seems to have converted all those who had previously inclined the other way. Like the chicken who was convinced that the sky was falling, when a rose leaf dropped upon her back, the dim suspicion of an "alliance" between Harvard and Princeton frightened the Yalensians into refusing...